Hallam Foe

After momentarily veering off course with a misguide adaptation of Patrick McGrath's eerie neo-gothic novel Asylum, Scottish director David Mackenzie is back on track, making good on the promise he initially showed with such dark, acclaimed features as THE LAST GREAT WILDERNESS and the award-winning YOUNG ADAM. Expert at lock picking and proficient at peering into other people's windows, 17-year-old Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is a young Scot who can't get past the drowning death of his suicidal mother in the loch on the sprawling family estate. Dad (Ciaran Hinds) has since married his former secretary, Verity (Claire Forlani), whom Hallam hates and he takes no pains to hide his feelings. After his sister, Lucy (Lucy Holt), relocates to Austra...

The eponymous young lad (Jamie Bell) has a bit of a prurient streak - he loves watching people making out in the woods from his treehouse before applying his own, unique, form of contraception! His life at home is a troubled one after his mother committed suicide and "Hallam" certain that his new stepmother (Claire Forlani) was behind the crime. Unable to convince his father (Ciaràn Hinds) he flees to Edinburgh were he falls completely for hotel manager "Kate" (Sophia Myles). He pleads with her to give him a kitchen job and pretty swiftly, thanks to an eerie like vantage point atop the hotel, he is up to his old tricks again. Quickly, he discovers that she is having an affair with a married man (Jamie Sives). It's that man who cottons on to...